A May 15 article by J Oliver Conroy in The Guardian explains why to many in law enforcement, the biggest terror threat in the U.S. is not from radical Muslims but fanatical anti-government activists, many but not all on the … Continue reading
Three countries lead the world in imprisoning journalists In a column published yesterday (May 15) on the Columbia Journalism Review website, Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalist pointed out that as of the end of 2016 there were … Continue reading
There is a sense in which you can’t be too skeptical. Even when people tell the truth to the best of their knowledge, they might still be mistaken. People also tell deliberate lies. No source of information is completely reliable, … Continue reading
As you probably know, Bill O’Reilly was fired by Fox News after it emerged that he and the network had paid multiple women a total of millions of dollars in response to lawsuits for sexual harassment and numerous sponsors had … Continue reading
Yesterday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA was an image from the Curiosity rover showing what was at some point in the past very probably a beach on Mars and before that the bottom of a lake. NASA is … Continue reading
Conventional wisdom suggests that Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner are moderating influences on him, and this may be true. But in the clip below John Oliver points out that there’s not much hard evidence one way … Continue reading
Reportedly seen on a bus in Hong Kong: You don’t know where they’ve been. (I’d suggest washing them just in case.) by … Continue reading
Odds are you’ve already seen this, but I’m putting it here anyway in case you might not have. It’s from the May 1 broadcast of his late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live in which he described what happened to … Continue reading
In a scene from Samantha Bee’s Not The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a woman acquires a mysterious film showing her an alternate reality: Link: https://youtu.be/mV4LDXg0Q4E From the same program, President George W Bush (or Will Ferrell, anyway) gives his take … Continue reading
Here’s the latest video from the folks at Corridor Digital: Link: https://youtu.be/jAKpy9oJ8Qc They’ve been producing clever stuff like this for years on their YouTube channel, with a parallel channel called Sam and Niko that shows how they create their stuff. … Continue reading